Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-27
DETAILS OF THE DAY.
What Yesterday Brought Forth Regarding
fha Vreek.

What Yesterday Brought Forth Regarding
the Wreck.
CINCINNATI, June 25.-After the ex-
citing and somewhat sensational events OF
Thursday in the Fidelity crash there was
refreshing lull yesterday, and to-day
there is not q single additional piece OF
news TO chronicle, at least as far as the
condition of the bank or its late officers are
concerned. The vaults, books and papers
remain under lock and key, and the ex-
animation of them was commenced this
morning, Hon. V. P. Snyder, the newly
appointed receiver, having arrived in the
city last night for the purpose of assuming
control of the deiunct concern.
Harper and Hopkins, despite strenuous
efforts, especially on the part of the former,
to obtain bond, remain within the bars Of
the county Jail, where shortly after their
first incarceration they were placed, in one
of the rooms set apart for the confinement
of female prisoners, and which was former
ly used By prisoners condemned to die
upon the scaffold after the death watch
had been placed upon them. Cashier Am
hi Baldwin is still at large on bond, and
his bondsmen have as yet manifested no
intention or desire of surrendering him
into custody.
Comptroller Trenholm was in the pri-
vate office of the President at the bank
during the greater portion OF the day, and
was closeted there with Briggs Swift for
more than hour in the morning, and later
Mr.. Trenholm visited the Jail, where he
remained for nearly two hours ClOseted
with Harper and Baldwin. There is no
doubt but that the failure of Kennedy u
Co. is due to their being on Wilshlre's
paper. This paper had been discounted by
the Fidelity, and is now II. (. \ meeting
of thestOckhOlders of the Fidelity was held
this morning, at Stewards Hall, for consul
tation as to tue course TO be pursued, but
nothing definite was done. Any agreement
the stockholders might make would have
no effect on the course Of the government
officers, except, psyhaps, to stimulate them
in the performance Of their duties. ALI
power of settlement with creditors, who
must share and share alike, rests with the
receiver absolutely. The depOsitors may,
however, if they see tit, employ counsel
and bring suit against the Directors In their
individual capacity.
THE FIRST DAY IN JAIL
The Fidelity Bank officers, Harper and
Hopkins did not go 10 the bank yesterday
morning as they have done, morning after
morning, during all the months that have
passed since the Fidelity bloOmcd out into
the garden of finance, startling its plain,
everyday, suntlOwer sort OF neighbOrS by
the gOrgeOusness OF its apparel, and the
CELEBRITY with which it reached growth
that had taken them long to attain.
Harper and Hopkins did not witness the
dawning, but the day dawned yesterday
dawned for them under circumstances
! which they had never experienced before
circumstances which were for the nOnce
beyond their control, but circumstances
which erstwhile could have been avoided
by them. But they were not, and SO the
day broke over the Hamilton County Jail,
which contained two of the most famous
individuals that ever slept under its roof
broke with a dreary prospect of another
day of vain endeayor to obtain release,
which came not.
Their money was all gone, and with it
nearly all the friends that iawned on them
in the day of their success. They were
broke, and of all the unfortunate things
that can happen to man that is about the
worst. They were not alone in that re-
spect, that unfortunate respect, for they
had innumerable comrades who could with
them appropriately use the paraphrase.
Break, break, break, on thy cold gray stones, o,
| sea,
But broke, broke, broke, is the song you sing to
| me-"